Two men captured on CCTV punching, kicking and stamping on a innocent man sat on a bench have been jailed.

Darren Thomas, 31, and Joshua Roberts, 19, claimed they were so drunk they could not remember anything of the violence they inflicted on the 59-year-old in Holywell town centre.

The victim refused to make a complaint so the attackers were charged with affray.

Thomas, of Nant y Coed in Holywell, was jailed for 22 months and Roberts, of Meadow Bank, received 12 months in a young offenders’ institute, after they both pleaded guilty.

The judge, Mr Recorder Simon Mills, said it was “a shocking and vicious attack” on a man who was just minding his own business.

Both later said that their own behaviour was disgusting but the judge said whether or not they were shocked by what they had done when drunk he did not know.

Darren Thomas, 31, of Nant y Coed in Holywell, was jailed for 22 months for affray in Holywell town centre in which a 59-year-old man was attacked while sat on a bench. (Image: NORTH WALES POLICE)

Thomas, he said, was older and had a terrible record for violence.

Mr Mills said he had a duty to protect the public from people like him.

Roberts, who also admitted assaulting a police officer and possessing cannabis, was starting on the same path as Thomas, the Judge said.

Prosecuting barrister Jo Maxwell said the prosecution had photographs of the injuries which had been inflicted and the attack on February 2 had been captured on the town centre CCTV, which she played to the court.